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Catering Startup Cater2.me Says It Has Served 5M Meals
It’s been more than two years since I last wrote about Cater2.me, a service that connects local food vendors with companies in need of catering. Sounds like the startup has been busy since then — co-founder Zach Yungst told me that it has now served 5 million meals total, and that it’s launching in four new cities, bringing the total to 10. Cater2.me’s goal is to deliver… Read More -
Farming Startup FarmLogs Triples Market Share In Last Six Months
Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing today a significant milestone in the young company’s history. In just two years since its founding, the company has seen incredible growth and now counts customers in all 50 states and over $11 billion worth of crops under its management, a number that has tripled in the last six months. FarmLogs estimates 15% of the farms within the United States… Read More -
Peer-To-Peer Auto Marketplace Beepi Adds A ‘Prime’ Option, Now Shipping To 140 Cities
Beepi is opening up its marketplace to a wider area of buyers, introducing a “Prime” option for buyers in states neighboring California to have cars shipped to them for $999. Read More -
Flywheel Raises $1.2M For Its Designer-Centric WordPress Hosting Platform
The open-source WordPress software runs a huge chunk of all of the sites on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that there’s also a massive ecosystem that has sprung up around the platform. These days, there’s a specialized WordPress service for virtually any niche you can think of. Omaha-based Flywheel is one of those services. It focuses on designers, freelancers and… Read More -
The Road To Disrupt: The Final Steps
In the final videos of the Road To Disrupt series, all of the Startup Battlefield teams from Disrupt SF 2013 find out the results of the competition. This is it for the 30 startups involved with Startup Battlefield. It’s all on the line and the companies are about to see who will take home $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Read More -
Nasty Gal Lays Off Up To 10 Percent Of Its Workforce
Several sources confirm Nasty Gal has laid off up to 27 employees in the last week. “Business is down dramatically and leadership has been in panic mode for months,” according to one source. #GIRLBOSS author and CEO Sophia Amoruso told WWD last Friday that the company is making some “strategic changes.” Read More -
Seahorse Lets You Collaborate With Friends To Build Lasting Photo And Video Albums, Shared Privately
A new mobile application launching today called Seahorse lets you create collaborative photo and video albums with friends and family, as well as ways to filter your past photos by time, place, or those you were with. The app, a fairly robust alternative to your smartphone’s default photo gallery, lets anyone add photos or videos to a shared “scene,” as these… Read More -
Breather Raises $6M To Help City Dwellers Find Private “Breathing Rooms”
Breather, a startup that helps users find private spaces nearby, on-demand, is announcing that it has raised a $6.5 million Series A. The idea of helping people find empty desks or offices spaces isn’t new, but co-founder and CEO Julien Smith was emphatic that Breather isn’t an office sharing startup. Read More -
Former Twitter Chief Scientist Launches Steven, An Emoji-Based Social App
I can’t quite put my finger on why I keep using this new app called Steven – yes, Steven, like a boy’s name – but I do. The app itself is sort of silly – it offers you a way to log your activities and location using emoji, optionally add photos, plus view and respond to posts from other friends, also through the use of emoji. Why? Well…why not? The app may… Read More -
LogMeIn Buys YC-Backed Meldium For $15M To Add Single-Sign On To Its Service
LogMeIn, a company that provides remote connectivity solutions to businesses and individuals, today is announcing an interesting acquisition that builds out the kinds of services it can offer and taps further into the wider shift to cloud-based services that we are seeing among enterprises and consumers: it has acquired Meldium, a Y-Combinator alum that specialises in single-sign on and… Read More
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Frank & Oak, Personalized Men’s Fashion Brand, Nabs $15 Million In Series B
Frank & Oak, a menswear ecommerce brand, has just raised a $15 million Series B round led by Goodwater Capital with participation from Green Oaks Capital, Investment Quebec, John Currie (of Lululemon), alongside existing investors such as Rho Canada Ventures, Real Ventures, Version One Ventures, Lightbank and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Frank & Oak is a personalized… Read More -
Sphero Finally Gets A Friend With Ollie, The Tubular Smartphone-Controlled Robot
Today, Orbotix (the makers behind Sphero) is introducing its second robot alongside the circular Sphero to go faster and jump higher. Folks, meet the Ollie by Sphero. Originally called the 2B, the Ollie can go about 2x faster than the Sphero, which is shaped like a ball. The Ollie has a 30-meter range, and alongside the ability to go much faster than the Sphero, users are also able to… Read More -
Cleaning Startup Homejoy Launches Its First iPhone App
Two years after Homejoy first launched its home cleaning service, the startup is releasing an iPhone app — its first native experience for smartphones. It seems a little crazy for a current-day, consumer-facing startup to wait that long to build a real presence on mobile, particularly when you’re talking about a company as well-funded as Homejoy. Read More -
Location Is Everything, As Mobile Ad Startup xAd Raises $50M Led By IVP
xAd, a mobile ad startup that specialises in serving media specific to a user’s location, is today announcing $50 million in funding — significant not only for the size of the round, but also for the context around the money coming into its coffers. xAd is already profitable, growing fast, wasn’t in the market for raising financing (it has “several million dollars… Read More -
Big App Fund, With Marketing Help From Facebook, Wants To Back Europe’s Best Young App Entrepreneurs
Facebook is throwing its marketing and PR weight behind a new competition to find and invest in the best young mobile app entrepreneurs in Europe. ‘The Big App 2014‘, underpinned by Worth Capital’s new ‘Big App Fund’, which itself is currently equity-crowdfunding on Seedrs, is open to app entrepreneurs aged 18-35 with a retail or e-commerce-focussed… Read More -
With Intercom’s New In-App Messenger, Businesses Can Get Smarter About Talking To Customers
When Paul Adams left Facebook to join customer communication startup Intercom, he told me the goal was to help businesses becoeme more personable and intimate when communicating with customers. With the recent launch of the new version of Intercom’s in-app messenger, it sounds like the company has taken a big step in that direction. The launch comes after Intercom announced a $23… Read More -
Readyforce Gives Students A Chance To Explore Options Before Picking Their First Jobs
Readyforce, a professional network for college students, is launching a new tool aimed at students who have already received job offers but would like to see what else might be out there for them. Read More -
ZenPayroll Partners With A Dozen Other SMB Back-Office Tools
Cloud-based payroll startup ZenPayroll wants to improve the way payroll is handled by small and medium-sized businesses, and to provide them with tools they need to do so. With the introduction of an API, the company is opening up integration with a wide variety of other back-office tools already used by many of its customers. Read More -
Brain Training Startup Memorado Raises $1.3M
I’ve recently become hooked on so-called brain training games, which claim to be able to help you improve your cognitive ability, while also cleverly tapping into the casual mobile gaming phenomena. There’s nothing quite like wasting away time playing games on your iPhone all in the name of better health. Read More -
The Road To Disrupt: Bitcovery And Hammer & Chisel
On this week’s Road To Disrupt, we’re back with Bitcovery and Hammer & Chisel and revisit their on-stage Startup Battlefield presentation at Disrupt SF 2013. Read More
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